Intro: G5

Chorus 1:
Em7         D              C              G5
    Someone must have been praying for me
           Em7      D             C           G5
'Cause I'm    doing better than I ought to be
          Em7     D               C         G5
Sometimes     I open my eyes, and I can't believe it
           Em7         D               C                         Em  
Yeah yeah,     someone must have been,   someone must have been praying for me

Interlude -x2-: Em7   D       C   C

Verse 1:
Em7            Em7              C                G 
West Coast kid in a Chevy S-10, everything I own in the back of the bed
Em7                 Em7                 C   
Wide-eyed dreaming about a Nashville skyline, naive enough to think that it's my
time
Em7          Em7               C                G 
    Singing about pipe dreams,       hanging on by heart strings
  Am7                G           D
a hundred doors kept on closing, for the one door you blew open, yeah

Chorus 2:
Em7         D              C              G5
    Someone must have been praying for me
           Em7      D             C           G5
'Cause I'm    doing better than I ought to be
          Em7    D            C               G5
Sometimes     I open my eyes,   and I can't believe it
           Em7         D               C                         Em  
Yeah yeah,     someone must have been,   someone must have been praying for
me......, yeah

Interlude -x2-: Em7   D       C   C

Verse 2:
                      Em7              Em7 
This has got to be as good as it gets 'cause it feels like fiction
C                 G 
Little footsteps,     running through the kitchen
Em7                Em7                           C   
    Lonely nights,       running on the highway,       turned into a couple bikes in the driveway
Em7        Em7              C                      G 
    Living that pipe dream,       I'm doing better than I ought to be
   Am7                  G                    D
Of all the lives that I could have lived in, when I see this one I've been given, I think

Chorus 2:
Em7         D              C              G5
    Someone must have been praying for me
           Em7      D             C              G5
'Cause I'm    doing better than I ought to be, than I ought to be yeah
          Em7    D            C               G5
Sometimes     I open my eyes,   and I can't believe it
           Em7         D               C                         Em  
Yeah yeah,     someone must have been,   someone must have been praying for
me......

Bridge:
Em7       D                  C       G
    Somebody must have been,   somebody must have been
Em7       D                 C
    Somebody must have been   praying for me -When I see you in the morning, I know...-
Em7       D                  C       G
    Somebody must have been,   somebody must have been -Somebody must have been praying for me-
Em7       D                 C
    Somebody must have been   praying for me

Outro:
Em7         D              C              G
    Someone must have been praying for me
              Em7         D           C                 G
'Cause when I     hold my daughter, I hear heaven speak
          Em7    D            C           G
Sometimes     I open my eyes,   I can't believe it
           Em7         D               C                           Em          D
Yeah yeah,     someone must have been,   someone must have been praying for me
   C  G                     Em        D    C        G
    I thank God they were praying for me